Handling long running tasks in pika / RabbitMQ

Question

We\'re trying to set up a basic directed queue system where a producer will generate several tasks and one or more consumers will grab a task at a time, process it, and ackn

Answer 1

You can also set up a new thread, and process the message in this new thread, and call .sleep on the connection while this thread is alive to prevent missing heartbeats. Here is a sample code block taken from @gmr in github, and a link to the issue for future reference.

import re
import json
import threading

from google.cloud import bigquery
import pandas as pd
import pika
from unidecode import unidecode

def process_export(url, tablename):
    df = pd.read_csv(csvURL, encoding="utf-8")
    print("read in the csv")
    columns = list(df)
    ascii_only_name = [unidecode(name) for name in columns]
    cleaned_column_names = [re.sub("[^a-zA-Z0-9_ ]", "", name) for name in ascii_only_name]
    underscored_names = [name.replace(" ", "_") for name in cleaned_column_names]
    valid_gbq_tablename = "test." + tablename
    df.columns = underscored_names

    # try:
    df.to_gbq(valid_gbq_tablename, "some_project", if_exists="append", verbose=True, chunksize=10000)
    # print("Finished Exporting")
    # except Exception as error:
    #     print("unable to export due to: ")
    #     print(error)
    #     print()

def data_handler(channel, method, properties, body):
    body = json.loads(body)

    thread = threading.Thread(target=process_export, args=(body["csvURL"], body["tablename"]))
    thread.start()
    while thread.is_alive():  # Loop while the thread is processing
        channel._connection.sleep(1.0)
    print('Back from thread')
    channel.basic_ack(delivery_tag=method.delivery_tag)


def main():
    params = pika.ConnectionParameters(host='localhost', heartbeat=60)
    connection = pika.BlockingConnection(params)
    channel = connection.channel()
    channel.queue_declare(queue="some_queue", durable=True)
    channel.basic_qos(prefetch_count=1)
    channel.basic_consume(data_handler, queue="some_queue")
    try:
        channel.start_consuming()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        channel.stop_consuming()
    channel.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

The link: https://github.com/pika/pika/issues/930#issuecomment-360333837